{"id":4487,"date":"2016-12-22T18:55:52","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T23:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=4487"},"modified":"2016-12-22T18:55:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T23:55:52","slug":"frank-vatrano-david-pastrnak-return-boston-bruins-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2016\/12\/22\/frank-vatrano-david-pastrnak-return-boston-bruins-lineup\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Vatrano and David Pastrnak Return to Boston Bruins Lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Bruins announced on Thursday that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/v\/vatrafr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frank Vatrano<\/a> <\/strong>and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/pastrda01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Pastrnak<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0will be returning to the lineup for the team&#8217;s meeting with the Florida Panthers tonight.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Highly likely&quot; that Frank Vatrano and David Pastrnak are in the lineup tonight, per Julien.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Boston Bruins (@NHLBruins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLBruins\/status\/811983049529421824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Frank Vatrano and David Pastrnak Return to Lineup<\/h3>\n<p>Pastrnak missed\u00a0Boston&#8217;s last two games: a 1-0 win over the Los Angeles Kings and a 4-2 loss to the New York Islanders. He underwent a procedure to remove an olecranon bursa from his right elbow, the same surgery that sidelined fellow Bruin <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/backeda01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Backes<\/a><\/strong> in October. He is currently second in the league in goals behind only Pittsburghs\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/crosbsi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sidney Crosby<\/a><\/strong>. The 20-year old Czech has scored 19 goals in the 27 games he has played this season, and remains to be the team&#8217;s top offensive producer, especially when playing on a line with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bergepa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patrice Bergeron<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/marchbr03.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brad Marchand<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Vatrano, who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2016\/12\/06\/matt-beleskey-frank-vatrano-injury-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">started practicing with the team<\/a> at the beginning of the month, put up 11 points in 39 games played with Boston last year. In addition to the 36 goals he scored with the team&#8217;s AHL affiliate in Providence (he had 39 goals in 43 games with the Providence Bruins).<\/p>\n<p>He suffered torn ligaments in his foot before training camp this season, which resulted in Vatrano being unable to skate until just after Thanksgiving. After practicing with Boston for a week, Vatrano was sent down to the Providence Bruins this past weekend, where he scored\u00a0one goal in each game played.<\/p>\n<p>Based on line rushes at morning skate, it looks like Vatrano will be skating on the third line with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/n\/nashri02.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Riley Nash<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/czarnau01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Austin Czarnik<\/a><\/strong>, and Pastrnak will be back with Bergeron and Marchand. The added depth and scoring ability of the return of these two will be a great addition to the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>The Bruins are in Miami today to face the Florida Panther (15-13-5). This game also has the headline that, if he gets a point tonight, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/j\/jagrja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jaromir Jagr<\/a><\/strong> will take sole possession of second all-time in scoring.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/629399418\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/629399418?et=cwtFvwrmQX5vnFoEjIdWZw&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=eHj-Emuocq6DlEZI7HtZixlCAzei0JtUTz1RhCAesE0=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Bruins announced on Thursday that Frank Vatrano and\u00a0David Pastrnak\u00a0will be returning to the lineup for the team&#8217;s meeting with the Florida Panthers tonight. &quot;Highly likely&quot; that Frank Vatrano and David Pastrnak are in the lineup tonight, per Julien. &mdash; Boston Bruins (@NHLBruins) December 22, 2016 Frank Vatrano and David Pastrnak Return to Lineup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":4491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,5],"tags":[90,762,983,37,38],"class_list":["post-4487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-bruins","tag-boston-bruins","tag-david-pastrnak","tag-frank-vatrano","tag-hockey","tag-nhl"],"modified_by":"Nic Hendrickson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}